Readers select King's Academy as Cheerleading Team of the Year

Two-time state champion King's Academy was voted as the Readers Choice top girls cheerleading team for Palm Beach County in an online poll at SunSentinel.com/highschool.

The King's Academy earned 28 percent of the vote to edge West Boca (26 percent) for the top Readers Choice honors.

Not only did the Lions finish its second consecutive year as the top FHSAA Class 1A Large Non-Tumbling cheerleading team in the state, Kings Academy went on to take second in the nation in a competition the following week. West Boca narrowly missed qualifying for the finals of the Large Varsity Division as it fell in the semifinals.

Benjamin, Jupiter and Wellington each finished with 12 percent of the vote and were followed closely by Seminole Ridge (10 percent) as the other nominees.